Egypt. Alexandria. Hadrian, 117-138. Tetradrachm. (Billon, 25.50 mm, 13.82 g). Dated RY 20 = 135/6. AYT KAIC T PAI AΔPIA CEB Laureate head left. Rev. Mummiform Osiris (Ptah-Sokar-Osiris) standing facing right and holding sceptre; L – K (date), in field. Emmett 883. Dattari 1447. RPC 6088. Geissen 1198. Rare. Nice old cabinet tone. Good Very Fine. Ex Naville Numismatics Ltd., Auction 56, 22.03.2020, lot 304. Tetradrachm issued in the last years of Hadrian’s reign where the portrait, of excellent style appears on the obverse, facing unusually to the left. On the reverse, the singular image of the mummiform deity Ptah-Sokar-Sothis belongs to Egyptian theology and in particular to funerary cult. It brings together under their respective symbols three well-known members of the pharaonic pantheon: the cap and sceptre for Ptah, the solar disk for Osiris and the shroud for Sokaris, “the lord of the necropolis”. The three associated deities recall the concepts of "mourning" and "life" evoking the pain associated with death along with the hope linked to resurrection.